In her new book “Job game secrets: 36 simple strategies to win the workplace“The functional coach, Kendall Berg, reveals a set of strategies to control our career life that combines pressure on promotions, titles and salary, but also finding a job.
It raised her taking more than half a million followers across InstagramTiktok, and YouTube who try to move forward at work and be happy.
I asked Berg to share some ideas. Below are excerpts edited to our conversations.
Kerry Hannon: What is the key to success in the functional game?
Kendall Berg: He chooses on the purpose and strategical of the place where you want to play the game, how you want to play, and when you don’t play the game. There are times in our professional life in which it may be more useful to do something for our progress, but it crosses our valuable line, or our limits.
How is the profession game?
It is very similar to chess, as there are anti -movements and movements, and rules, and there are no rules. When my husband and I first married, he decided to teach me to play chess. He left a lot of rules that would have helped me win.
Your career works similarly, as there are some rules that you were told: Here is a description of your job. Below is expected to be successful. Here are the delivery. Here are your final appointments.
But there is another complete set of the rules you learn only through playing, and this is not how difficult your work. It is the one who adopts relationships with him, how you defend yourself, and how you talk about the work you do.
If you take the first job you get every time you search, regardless of how your feelings, skills, or values match, then the only person who hinders you. If you stay loyal to a company that does not promote you or gives you chances of growth, then the only person who ends up is you.
There is one decisive base common in both chess and functional game: even when you start as a pide, it can become the queen – the most valuable piece on the blackboard.
You write this job progress rarely dependent on the merit in itself. Clarify this.
Most of us believe that our career will be directly worthy. We will go to work, and do our tasks, and this alone will be enough for us to upgrade.
But this is not true. Progress in your career is not related to your basic function, but rather to develop the appropriate soft skills to be an effective pioneer.
We have a tunnel vision. I see it all the time: individuals who work hard for a million different projects, which increases the levels of mental pregnancy and tension significantly, only so that their leadership is not aware.
Even if your boss is attention, the possibilities are that they have no time to understand the complications of the work you do, the level of details, the cooperation it requires, and the amount of time it requires.
So, if you do not invite yourself, share all these details, and communicate the value of the work you do, they will not have a case to promote you. For this reason, many people stumble. You may be able to work at the next level, but you don’t talk about it.
Why should we manage our career like our own business?
If I run my career like business, I am thinking like CEO. I am thinking, do I want to take this customer – the company for which you choose to work in exchange for a feeling of despair to be employed by the customer.
I constantly sell myself and work. This is what I am good at. Here is the value that your company brings. This is why it is important. I am thinking about my work effect. Anyone was a single entrepreneur, began with side bustle or business, knowing that you are in 99 % sales of time. You say, this is the value of the work I brought. Here’s its effect on the end result.
When you start switching to the CEO’s mentality, you are constantly building relationships so that your business can grow, so you have more opportunities in the future. Otherwise, you are just a gear in the machine that takes a salary. You will not see the same movement and the path you may want.
Kendall, she writes about the importance of self -development, let’s discuss.
When we reached 40, our self -development is mainly drilling. We start reaching this mentality where we think we know everything. I was doing this for 20 years. I have seen something or two,
The truth is that our landscape is constantly changing. If you do not invest in yourself, if you do not learn artificial intelligence, then new techniques, there is someone, and this person will get upgrade.
“One of the common decisive rules between both chess and functional game: Even when it starts as pandes, the queen can become the most valuable piece on the blackboard,” according to Kendall Berg, in the picture here. (Credit Image: Gracie Wilson Photography) ·Gracie Wilson Photographhy
What is the 11 list?
The list of 11 is a local tool that you have created over the past eight years of training that aims to help you understand who you are and how you want to appear at work.
They are five things that you want to be known at work, five things that you don’t want to be known at work, and a single personal brand statement.
We are really difficult for ourselves. Getting an evaluation of self -evaluation can help me measure a good day for a bad day. This helps us know whether we are growing in the direction that we want to be known at work, or if we started slipping into bad habits in the way we do not want to live. Once you understand yourself as you are, not as you want to be, you can start expressing better about the value you bring to your team.
What advice will you give to a recently demobilized person?
Get absorb. There are a lot of emotions that start and that make you really feel uncomfortable, and not really valuable. It can be very harmful to your confidence. It feels it is a setback. It is a sad, emotional, emotional, cooking process.
You have to give yourself time and space to feel these things, but not much. You have two weeks. Feel all your feelings. Cry, if this is your character type. Go to Aruba.
Sit with her, then you have to return to the game at a relative speed.
Meet anyone and everyone who worked with him, who you liked, or who works in a company you love. These can be personal or 15 minutes to catch up with a knee, but personally better. These are not calls, “Can you refer me?”
Then write the 11 list, your passion data, and show your personal brand, and start determining the jobs you want to target.
Your personal brand will be the way you talk about yourself in interviews, how you talk about yourself in your CV, and how you talk about yourself in a coffee conversation.
Start applying for jobs only after investing in heating your network, creating this correct CV, creating that correct story, and creating a correct passion for questions
Then go out to the labor market. It may take three to nine months, but be intended and communicate with people because most of the jobs are filled with referrals.
